Sunday, May 23, 2010

Have you ever been gruntled?

Ben Schott runs a blog at The New York Times dedicated to new words. Here's his weekend competition:
This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to create necessary neologisms by monkeying with prefixes and suffixes.

For example:

Why, when one can be overwhelmed and underwhelmed, cannot one be whelmed?
Surely, unsubtle innuendo is outuendo, and innuendo that goes too far is innuendon’t.
Is one who hates all married women a mrsanthrope?
And, how many of us have ever been gruntled?
I was gruntled once. I bought an ointment and it went away.

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